If like myself you find yourself are a creature of comfort it becomes increasingly frustrating that you have to find ways to get things back to the way you are familiar with; fixing things that you consider broken but others will say ‘you have to change with the times’.

What is it with UX Designers? Why do they feel the need to keep changing or moving things? Surely productivity improvements is a personal thing. I am all for new features and functionality (latest and greatest or whatever business bingo phrase your peers instil on you) but please let users have some choice in what we need and how we present it “EASILY” – I feel a simple setting to revert key productivity settings to an early version i.e. Win7 [ Start Menu ] or Office [x] would be welcomed by many as it reduces the time for users to transition to your new world.

It is not just Microsoft with their Metro, Ribbon Bars, Sharepoint integration; or Apple with their OSX/iOS updates.

There are many applications that address users with assistive technology needs – whilst it may depend on the size of business it should never be underestimated.

How can it be overcome? As I get more involved and understand the topic more I will be updating this article. But essentially it is important to maintain equality throughout.

One of the most common and widely used pieces of software is Dragon Naturally Speaking. Nuance (the vendor) has a number of user based tasks on their support pages demonstrating how to migrate settings from legacy versions. The important issue with Dragon NS though is that if you have let your installed version(s) get a long way behind then you may need to have a two stage migration process.

Remember each and every user has a unique set of requirements and you try not to differentiate between users.

After all the good intentions back in 2007 of getting a blog up and running I skipped a few years, writers block, laziness, Gin infused. That’s not to say this blog is going anywhere but what better day to start a blog. See you next time.